Tara ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
IONonElectionN, Gay marriages in Connecticut to begin Nov. 12
HARTFORD, Conn. — Gay marriages in Connecticut can start Nov. 12.
Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert on Monday scheduled a hearing on that date to enter the final judgment in the case that allows same-sex marriages in the state.
Woo-hoo!
Oh God, please get me out of this city...
Seriously, I'm not sure I can last until the kids graduate high school.
My puppycam is frozen. Feh.
I had a dream the other night that I went back to Delaware to vote because they had early voting and it was considered to be a swing state. My polling place was the Concord Mall (where my friends & I hung out in highschool) and the line went down 202 about 3 miles. I was talking to people at the end of the line and they were all voting for Obama so I decided I could vote in Maryland instead.
Hee! Mine would have been Christiana Mall. A swing state - I love it! I think I am going to treat myself to lunch at the Charcoal Pit after I vote (not the One True Charcoal Pit, though - I have a closer one now.)
The construction crews working on rennovating the building next door started jackhammering against our shared wall before 8 am this morning. There's just no better way to wake up than with your bedroom walls vibrating hard enough to rattle the picture frames.
Since the noise of their power tools inspired the idiot yippy dog downstairs to bark continuously for the full 90 minutes before I left for work this morning, I do at least hold out some hope that it will lose its voice by the time I get home tonight.
Nathan Bedford Forest? Jeez. It's not like it's even someone where they had to dig for unknown skeletons in the closet. That is so fucking wrong.
Hee! Mine would have been Christiana Mall.
Aw, you guys are making me all nostalgic. Also? Charcoal Pit! One day, Jen, you and me. Mmmm.
I had a chance to vote for Rob Sherman (probably the most famous atheist in the country) for state representative, but I declined.
The View From Your Election: Dartmouth College
A reader writes to Sullivan:
Those who are wondering if the youth will turn out ought to see what I saw this morning.
One well-known government professor here told me that she has never seen so many students vote in the first hour of voting as she saw this morning. And I've never seen so many students up and alert at this hour. They're normally stumbling out of bed to make it to their 10 a.m. courses. Today, the campus has been buzzing for hours this morning. It appears that many of them decided to go to the polls as groups of twos, threes, fours and more when the polls opened at 7 a.m. The number of students I saw by 8 a.m. walking around with "I voted" stickers on is astonishing.
At breakfast, I sat next to a table of four black students, all of whom had voted. The three men were wearing ties. I asked them why. The answer: It was their first election, and they wanted to mark the occasion.
I've been amazed at how many kids had shouted pro-Obama things to me these last few months....